Re: [Fwd: using gtranslator for arabic]

[Fatih Demir <kabalak gtranslator org>]

On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 15:34, Isam Bayazidi wrote:
> On Sunday 12 May 2002 18:30, Fatih Demir wrote:
> > Does anyone know this "friend" which requested a little piece of help
> > from me for gtranslator & Arabic?! Unfortunately he used a very good
> > EMail address (forgot to configure local exim etc.?!).
> >
> > Well, anyway, it would be good to contact him to help him/the community
> > with his request... Anyone here who knows him or maybe even better: are
> > you also here Arafat M.?! Thanks for any hints about him :-)
> 
> I know Arafat :-) he is a new member in the Arabeyes team (www.arabeyes.org)..
> It seems that he is too excited :-) ( I CCed him)

Heh,ok,of course that could also be; at least now I know his real EMail
address :-)

> About gtranslator, as far as I know, with GTK2 ( Gnome2) it supports Arabic .. 
> This is the case for most of Gnome2 applications ..

Yepp, we're using the standard GNOME 2.0 techniques and they're
supporting UTF-8 & Pango should support Arabic without many big
problems.. but...

> The thing is that KDE3 is already released, and it supports arabic, most 
> Gnome2 translators in the Arabeyes team use kbabel ..

 gtranslator is currently in CVS _HEAD_ on the way to be GNOME 2.0
ported, the current sources there are proted to GNOME 2.0 but not
touched with love and applied a new beauty day of coding :-) But it
works under GNOME 2.0 -- somehow, somewhere at least ;-)

> I will followup with Arafat to help him work with gtranslator with Arabic, 
> itis propobly a font issue ..

Ok,that's fine, thanks! :-)
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